This study examined the effect of word class (nouns vs. verbs) on L2 pronunciation accuracy of Korean–English bilinguals. The participants were 192 adult immigrants whose age of arrival (AOA) in the United States ranged from ...
Mandarin is the official state language of China and the most widely spoken Chinese dialect in the country. ... Mandarin is spoken widely in Singapore and
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Another way in which both Chinese and Cantonese grammar are similar to English grammar is that all of these make use of the same types of pronoun forms. For example, there are both singular and plural pronouns utilized. In addition, pronouns can be in first, second, or third person in all...
1. Simple loanwords from English sound 2. English +Chinese words For example, the word “hamburger(漢堡包)” consists of漢堡(hon3 bou2) from English sound +包(baau1) which means bread in Chinese. Similarly,子= child,果= fruit,魚= fish, and酒= alcohol drink. ...
I often embarrass myself when speaking Cantonese, because I never actually learnt the language in a formal setting and English is the official working language in Singapore. Writing this post makes me realise how 교포s feel, but that’s not the point of this post. ...
Cantonese /-eo-/ is another vowel not found in either Putonghua or English, though it is a closer /-oe-/, almost like the French ‘eû’ in ‘jeûne’. For beginners, the 2 final sets of /-oe- -eo-/ are not easily distinguishable. Cantonese /-a-/ does not appear in syllable...
Spoken Cantonese vs Written Cantonese The Lazy Accent In Cantonese Cantonese Romanisation Systems English Root Words & Load Words The Cantonese Character System Cantonese, like every Chinese language, uses a character-based writing system, where each character corresponds to a block of meaning, not a...
and Canton (also known as Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong) has long been the most important port for western traders. Due to these close connections with the western world, Cantonese ended up borrowing many more words from English than Mandarin did. Here are two particularly notable ex...
5 excellent words in Cantonese you can remember using English mnemonics: Edit: It’s not me in this video, it’s beardan76 Top 5 words in Cantonese that sound rude in English And here my mnemonic rhymes: 著[zoek3] wear, put on, be dressed in; clothing: This jerk wears clothes with...